diff --git a/jena-arq/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/sparql/exec/http/QueryExecHTTP.java b/jena-arq/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/sparql/exec/http/QueryExecHTTP.java
index f7ffc2f2f7c..bce2484d4e8 100644
--- a/jena-arq/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/sparql/exec/http/QueryExecHTTP.java
+++ b/jena-arq/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/sparql/exec/http/QueryExecHTTP.java
@@ -762,12 +762,16 @@ private static void cancelFuture(CompletableFuture<?> future) {
     private void closeRetainedConnection() {
         if (retainedConnection != null) {
             try {
-                // This call may take a long time if the response has not been consumed
-                // as HTTP client will consume the remaining response so it can re-use the
-                // connection. If we're closing when we're not at the end of the stream then
-                // issue a warning to the logs
-                if (retainedConnection.read() != -1)
+                if (isAborted) {
+                    // Don't drain on abort - cancel the request and close without reading.
+                    cancelFuture(future);
+                } else if (retainedConnection.read() != -1) {
+                    // This call may take a long time if the response has not been consumed
+                    // as HTTP client will consume the remaining response so it can re-use the
+                    // connection. If we're closing when we're not at the end of the stream then
+                    // issue a warning to the logs
                     Log.warn(this, "HTTP response not fully consumed, if HTTP Client is reusing connections (its default behaviour) then it will consume the remaining response data which may take a long time and cause this application to become unresponsive");
+                }
                 retainedConnection.close();
             } catch (RuntimeIOException | java.io.IOException e) {
                 // If we are closing early and the underlying stream is chunk encoded
diff --git a/jena-integration-tests/src/test/java/org/apache/jena/sparql/exec/http/TestQueryExecHTTP.java b/jena-integration-tests/src/test/java/org/apache/jena/sparql/exec/http/TestQueryExecHTTP.java
index ae30518ee9b..33f0e64d43d 100644
--- a/jena-integration-tests/src/test/java/org/apache/jena/sparql/exec/http/TestQueryExecHTTP.java
+++ b/jena-integration-tests/src/test/java/org/apache/jena/sparql/exec/http/TestQueryExecHTTP.java
@@ -27,10 +27,12 @@
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
 
 import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterAll;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeAll;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Timeout;
 
 import org.apache.jena.atlas.iterator.Iter;
 import org.apache.jena.atlas.json.JsonArray;
@@ -339,4 +341,34 @@ public void query_graph_uri_5() {
             assertEquals(2, x);
         }
     }
+
+    // Aborting a streaming QueryExecHTTP must not block on close and must not
+    // leave the server unable to serve subsequent queries (GH-3837).
+    @Test
+    @Timeout(value = 10, unit = TimeUnit.SECONDS)
+    public void query_abort_no_wedge() {
+        DatasetGraph dsg2 = DatasetGraphFactory.createTxnMem();
+        for (int i = 0; i < 500; i++)
+            dsg2.add(parseQuad("(_ <http://example/s" + i + "> <http://example/p> <http://example/o" + i + ">)"));
+        FusekiServer server2 = FusekiServer.create().port(0).add("/ds2", dsg2).build();
+        server2.start();
+        String url2 = "http://localhost:" + server2.getPort() + "/ds2";
+        try {
+            for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
+                try (QueryExecHTTP qExec = QueryExecHTTP.newBuilder()
+                        .endpoint(url2).queryString("SELECT * { ?s ?p ?o }").build()) {
+                    qExec.select();
+                    qExec.abort();
+                }
+            }
+            // Server must still respond after the burst of aborted queries.
+            try (QueryExecHTTP qExec = QueryExecHTTP.newBuilder()
+                    .endpoint(url2).queryString("SELECT (COUNT(*) AS ?n) { ?s ?p ?o }").build()) {
+                RowSet rs = qExec.select();
+                assertTrue(rs.hasNext());
+            }
+        } finally {
+            server2.stop();
+        }
+    }
 }